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Kagi Search API pricing
What Kagi Search API returns, how queries are billed, how self-serve invoicing and enterprise quotes work, and priced alternatives.
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Your job
What Kagi Search API counts
What you pay
Successes you want
100,000 standard searches
Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.
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Attempts you are billed for
100,000 standard searches
Kagi Search API bills failed fetches. This workload assumes none fail, so nothing is added here.
- × 1
What the meter counts
100,000 requests
One attempt is one billed unit for this workload.
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Metered cash this month
$1,200.00 /mo
Search API. Cheapest of every eligible purchase option, not the first plan that fits.
Bars share one linear scale across the 3 counted stages, so a multiplier shows as length. Units differ by stage and are labelled. Cash is not on that scale.
100,000 standard searches → 100,000 request → Search API $1,200.00/mo = $12.00 per 1,000 searches
Cheaper for this job
Same 100,000 standard search calls with one default-depth result set per call, ranked by what you would actually be billed. Unknown totals never enter the numeric order.
Every Kagi Search API plan
| Plan | Monthly | If billed yearly | Prepaid pack | Included | Simultaneous sessions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search API your job | Not published | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
What consumes a unit
This is where a bill actually grows. One operation is not one billed unit, and the multiplier is published here rather than on the pricing page.
| Operation | Costs | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| search.query | 1 request | request | source |
What Kagi Search API does not publish
- Failed-request billing is not published.
- The standard self-serve rate limit is not published on the reviewed pricing page.
- No customer-side caching, retention, redistribution, or attribution restriction was obtained from the reviewed first-party pages.
Product scope and returned result
Kagi Search API returns real-time search results from Kagi. The public product covers web, image, news, video, and podcast queries, with lenses, country and language filters, domain ranking, custom URL rules, and optional extra snippets containing clean page content. Kagi also publishes a separate Extract API for clean Markdown from supplied URLs; that product is adjacent but is not the Search API meter represented by this record. (Kagi API pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).
This is a result API for applications that want Kagi’s ranking and search result types. It is not a remote browser, and it does not automatically turn every search into a synthesized answer. The Search API entered public preview on May 21, 2026, so buyers should treat the current interface as purchasable but still preview-stage. (Kagi changelog, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Every recorded meter
The recorded meter is one search query per request. Kagi publishes $12 per 1,000 search requests and says buyers pay only for usage. The current record has no additive content, result-depth, token, or proxy meter. The reviewed public pricing and API pages do not say whether a failed request is billable, and they do not publish the standard self-serve rate limit. (Kagi API pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Kagi invoices every 30 days or when API usage reaches $100, whichever comes first. That $100 event is an invoice threshold, not a stated minimum commitment. The API portal also supports prepaid credit and a buyer-set spending cap. (Kagi API portal, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Contract path, minimum, and trial
The standard path is self-serve. A buyer signs in to Kagi’s API portal, creates a key, chooses the products the key may access, optionally restricts IP addresses, and manages payment information or prepaid credit in Billing. A payment method is needed for continuing pay-per-use service after any existing preview credit is exhausted. No recurring free Search API tier or minimum purchase is published. Kagi previously granted subscribers a one-time $5 preview credit, but that is not a durable trial allowance. (Kagi API portal and Kagi changelog, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Enterprise buyers use “Contact Sales” or email support@kagi.com for custom pricing, volume discounts, custom rate limits, support, SLAs, and onboarding. A useful request should include expected queries per month, peak rate, result types, lenses or localization, use of extra snippets, support coverage, invoice requirements, and any custom commercial terms. (Kagi API pricing and API portal, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Price status and why there is no monthly plan price
Kagi does publish the $12 per 1,000 query price. The empty monthly field reflects pay-per-use billing, not secret pricing. Only higher-volume enterprise terms require a quote. (Kagi API pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Priced alternatives
- Tavily Project starts at $30 per month. (Tavily API credits, retrieved 2026-07-26).
- Olostep Starter starts at $9 per month. (Olostep, retrieved 2026-07-26).
- Firecrawl Hobby starts at $16 per month when billed annually, or $19 month to month. (Firecrawl pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Answer
Kagi Search API's dated 2026-07-26 price snapshot gives $1,200.00 for 100,000 standard searches on its Search API offer. This older figure is excluded from rankings; check the vendor before buying.
Recorded 2026-07-26 from the vendor's own pricing page.We could not confirm this price in the latest check, so it remains visible for context but cannot lead a price ranking. Check the vendor's pricing page before buying.